Iliad 18: War and Peace on the Shield of Achilles, an imago mundi

A picture, they say, speaks a thousand words. 

When Homer reports Hephaestus and his automata making the shield (and other armour) for Achilles, the ecphrasis takes 145 lines (468-613). We pan out and get to see the Homeric worlds: the world aside from war (almost) and the technologies and metallurgies of the time(s) of its poet(s).

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